Safer Communities: Volume 9 Issue 3

Strapline:

A journal on crime, crime prevention and community safety
Subjects:

Table of contents

A short history of the investigation into the ending of the criminal career

Stephen Farrall

The ‘age‐crime curve’, which shows that most of those who offend cease to do so, is one of the few certainties in criminology, yet desistance from offending has been relatively…

Developing an offender problem profile

Chris Fox

Community safety partnerships have a new statutory duty to reduce reoffending. A key stage in developing a strategy to do this is to understand the problem. The development of…

Reoffending as a measure of effectiveness of youth justice intervention: a critical note

Tim Bateman

Figures published by the Ministry of Justice show significant progress against New Labour's targets to reduce reoffending by young people within the youth justice system. The…

Reoffending following custody: improving outcomes

Jackie Lowthian

The prison population in England and Wales has risen dramatically in recent years and rates of reoffending following release are, at best, disappointing. This article considers…

Researching ‘dangerous’ and ‘problematic’ populations: some methodological reflections

Daniel Briggs

Ethnography has been an important research method that has given insight into ‘dangerous’ and ‘problematic’ populations. Yet, ethnographic methods with such populations are…

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ISSN:

1757-8043

Online date, start – end:

2002

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Timi Osidipe